There’s something to be said about a time when music was artfully relaxing, people were of normal weight and they bothered to look in the mirror before leaving the house. Although I fully enjoy living in the present …. I have to admit that we’ve definitely lost something along the way.
WOW! I just zoned out there for a few seconds. I was back in 1978, I was 12 years old, listening to this on TV in the North East of the UK with my Mum and Dad, with my whole life in front of me, and then boom! I'm back in the room and 57 again. Nostalgia is a beautiful thing.
Because their music was good, they could afford better clothes back then. And didn't wear underwear over their clothes. Madonna couldn't dress herself 😂😂😂🎉
It's nice to hear this song again. I first heard this song when Mr. Spooner performed it with Ms. Brahms, Mrs. Slocombe, and Mr. Humphries as backing vocals on the last episode of the British hit "Are you Being Served?"
Saw them in concert, took my parents. We were on our feet all night with sore hands from clapping so much. You would have to see them live to truly appreciate the scale of their talent, not the one or two recordings that were played mainstream.
Me too. Beautiful song and lovely harmonies. In '75 I was 19yo, and into rock music. Figure that out! In the same vein, I also loved Melanie's tune, " Look what they've done to my song." th-cam.com/video/r44Ach4mXE4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=sXoPPq9nys0yGyPo
Every time I see another recording for the first time, even if it's the same song just at a different venue, I have to give this group a thumbs-up. All these years and they still grab my soul each time I hear them.
Great song! I remember it from the last episode of Are You Being Served? This version was fantastic. The Manhattan Transfer can sing just about anything.
I have had the pleasure of attending one of their concerts some year ago. They put on a great show. It was well worth the admission price. It was about a year after their "Twilight Zone"-themed song became popular and they had fun with costumes and flashlights for the live performance.
@@voxac30withstrat as You know for sure it is usually not the artist that decides if a TV production is going to be a real live performance or a lip sync affair.
whatever let people be themselves don't have to ruin people trying to enjoy most other folks lively comments about their memories of this song to be interupted by a curmudgeon that people can dress how they please now happy pride month
@@thelastNokiauser first of all what does my comment have to do with Pride Month? My comment was made in admiration and respect of women like my late mother, who lived in London during WW2. My mother always wore dresses like most ladies of that age. FYI I have friends and colleagues that are in the Pride umbrella and I fully support them as persons and their sexual and gender preferences. You have your opinions as i have mine, but your personal insult is way of of line!
Better days. Better times. And much much better music. Aaah, the 70s. 💓💖💝👌 While there was some excellent music in the 80s & 90s & my formative yrs were the 80s, 60s & 70s music in particular, is far superior with a much larger variety of excellent music to boot.
How wonderfull it was to be in love with a pretty italien lady we both loved this song at 76 it's so good to hear this song and still get the same lovely feeling in one's stomach a love I will never forget
Don't be fooled folks. This not 'back in the old days, when music was music.' This was 1978, Rock was just beginning to fizzle out, so New Wave groups were prepping up for MTV. Disco was a big thing. The style of this song is from the 40s, so it does have a more whimsical. elegant feel to it. Manhatten Transfer was turning into the best vocal jazz band on the planet, and I loved them! Swing on.
![The Manhattan Transfer • Operator [1980]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/WEAtDmTbpu4/mqdefault.jpg)
Always loved this song. Great peaceful days, times and memories.
Wasn't it just ,
Had the privilege of seeing them live at Hammersmith Palais, they were simply brilliant.
Thanks for reminding me of how old I am. I'm gonna go take my arthritis medicine.
😅😅😅
Me,too. I'm 59. 😊
67 and I've already taken mine. Good to see this though.
😂
Lovely memory
Such a beautiful song and the lead singer is so elegant
There's nothing like this anymore.
There’s something to be said about a time when music was artfully relaxing, people were of normal weight and they bothered to look in the mirror before leaving the house. Although I fully enjoy living in the present …. I have to admit that we’ve definitely lost something along the way.
Pretty sure we’ve lost several many things along the way…
AMAZING.
Except they're miming...
I have tried my best but most recent music is lost on me and no matter how I try …I hate Rap …..
WOW! I just zoned out there for a few seconds. I was back in 1978, I was 12 years old, listening to this on TV in the North East of the UK with my Mum and Dad, with my whole life in front of me, and then boom! I'm back in the room and 57 again. Nostalgia is a beautiful thing.
Fantastic, me too
Geez the exact same age. Only I was in Dunstable. And instead of my life before me I’m retirement planning for ten years time. Where has it gone.
With your whole life now behind you
Gosh
Me as well, its brilliant
The lead singer has a bit of the sound of Edith Piaf, just lovely!❤❤😊
You're right. In the vibrato, even when their vocal tones are distant
Oui! Little sparrow!
I was 16 when I first saw them live, Janis has been my crush since then
I think that was intentional.
I'm sure it was intentional! That's Janis Seigel. The group just retired, and Janis and Alan Paul (on the right) were there to the end.
When entertaining was elegant and beautiful to watch.
Because their music was good, they could afford better clothes back then. And didn't wear underwear over their clothes. Madonna couldn't dress herself 😂😂😂🎉
I was just thinking that
I was just 4 years when this song came out. Love this even now in 2024.
Where have those 46 years gone? absolutely loved these guys.
Cocaine was a thing in the eighties
Whoosh... 😊
Beautiful music!
46 years ago. Great songs never get old , only us. 😊
But still young at heart !!
This couldn't have been 46 years ago. I was in high school -- and I'm not that old, at least, I don't think I am.
Unfortunately yes
Bloomin' 'eck, 46!! Still great 😊
1978 was the year I was born. 😍
Why did I have to wait until I was old to like this song? 🫤
Decades past and still love this song just as much..🇬🇧
It's nice to hear this song again. I first heard this song when Mr. Spooner performed it with Ms. Brahms, Mrs. Slocombe, and Mr. Humphries as backing vocals on the last episode of the British hit "Are you Being Served?"
Me too,I have never heard it anywhere else,love the britcoms❤
Nice to see someone else has seen Spooner(Berry) sing it with those wacky gang from Are You Being Served.
YES!
Yeah, I saw that episode. It made me expect a louder "rat-a-tat-a-tat" here.
Aaah, Miss Brahms ❤❤ RIP Lovely Wendy.
Absolutely fantastic, great song, Amazing ❤❤❤
Saw them in concert, took my parents. We were on our feet all night with sore hands from clapping so much. You would have to see them live to truly appreciate the scale of their talent, not the one or two recordings that were played mainstream.
Wow haven't heard them in years, what a great group, real talent
Tellement décalé d'avec today.
Mais tellement classe!
Le saxo, sa clé de voûte au milieu.
Une civilisation somptueuse disparue.
Saxo ténor..
déjà décalé en 1976
Loved that song when I first heard it and still do.
Me too.
Beautiful song and lovely harmonies.
In '75 I was 19yo, and into rock music.
Figure that out!
In the same vein, I also loved Melanie's tune, " Look what they've done to my song."
th-cam.com/video/r44Ach4mXE4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=sXoPPq9nys0yGyPo
Bloody brilliant never gets old
Too right ,class ,
When songs were unique
Written in 1958 and first performed by Art & Dottie. Still, a memorable interpretation.
i loved this sound in the 70s i was 14 years old ...
I was 13. I'd go back in a heartbeat if I could. 😢
For those few minutes I was taken back to my childhood in the late 1970s while watching this.
If only that was my childhood.
I didnt realised that this was actually a song! I use to hear this on commercials growing up!
I didn’t realised that this was actually a band too….😊
Number one in the uk in 1977 👍
@raymondbonington9355 Ok. I would have been one then. Lol!
@@sarahduhay5150 I’m gutted now I was 21 😩
Every time I see another recording for the first time, even if it's the same song just at a different venue, I have to give this group a thumbs-up. All these years and they still grab my soul each time I hear them.
How Good is this pure class.
Not Bad For A Song Written 66 Years Ago & Recorded 46 Years Ago. Thank You.
Wow. 1978! I was 15 years old and didn't really appreciate it back then! And introduced by the lovely Petula Clark!
Wow ! 1978 I was 30 and did appreciate it . Darn time goes way to fast ! Wish I had been 15 .
Crying 😢 with all the great memories this song gave me 😢
J'adore cette chanson d'amour ! J'adore Laurel Massé !
Singers like them only come around a few times in a lifetime, fantastic talent
Y vivimos la generación que podemos disfrutar estas canciones
Absolutely wonderful.
It had universal approval.
They even did it on
The Old Grey Whistle Test ,man.
Now that's a show
Nicer, simpler, happier times 🙏🏻
I always loved this smooth song and it takes me back to a far simpler time in life and before the World got so damn messed up.
The lead singer is so elegant
Fantastic group, still listening to their music👌
I got to see Manhattan Transfer live here in Chicago about four years ago still as amazing as they’ve always been🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Magnifique ❤❤❤
Great song! I remember it from the last episode of Are You Being Served? This version was fantastic. The Manhattan Transfer can sing just about anything.
They were always great,especially when singing acapella.
I was born 2 years before this performance, but Laurel is still my wife x
Wonderful to see original member Laurel Masse' with the group.
Last episode of Are You Being Served brought me here. You must see it!
❤🎉❤🎉 música lindíssima boa gosto
I had the pleasure and privilege of bing their coach driver for a week in 1986 during the Vancouver Expo.
" Bing their coach driver" ?? LMAO 😂😂😂😂
I have had the pleasure of attending one of their concerts some year ago. They put on a great show. It was well worth the admission price. It was about a year after their "Twilight Zone"-themed song became popular and they had fun with costumes and flashlights for the live performance.
Beatiful, so much 🌷💞❤❤❤
Superb vocals.
wonderful group and they made a great song even greater.
Always appreciated the original lineup, just that little bit more
When music was real
And mimed even back then
@@voxac30withstrat as You know for sure it is usually not the artist that decides if a TV production is going to be a real live performance or a lip sync affair.
They were great befor, but eternal after "Vocalese ". Still the benchmark of vocal ensemble singing arranging! R.I.P 🕯Tim
Childhood memories of my late father playing this.
Wow,such an unique ensemble,who could sing& had their very own style! They oozed class!
So beautifully mimed. You’d swear they were actually singing it.
Long, long time without this song. Is beautiful!!!;❤😂🎉😢😮😅😊
Sounds so good, so nostalgic I just love it! Thank you - Merci
Fabulous ! Loved them. Had one of their first albums years ago. Wish I still had it
Very nice! I miss the days of talented song groups. I’m from the 60s-70s, so I’m a bit jaded. ☮️
I’m 58 and I’ve loved this band my whole life. I envy anyone that seen them live. Not sure if they ever came to Australia . Fantastically versatile.
😂🎉😢😮they were from BlueMountains3Sisters-OZ as could be.
@@gary8840-m8 I’m from Adelaide. Never got to see them.
Maravillosos recuerdos plenos de nostalgia y melancolía....
Love sax solo
Nice to see ladies looking like ladies
Not men looking like ladies!
And we know they are ladies too.
whatever let people be themselves don't have to ruin people trying to enjoy most other folks lively comments about their memories of this song to be interupted by a curmudgeon that people can dress how they please now happy pride month
@@thelastNokiauser first of all what does my comment have to do with Pride Month?
My comment was made in admiration and respect of women like my late mother, who lived in London during WW2. My mother always wore dresses like most ladies of that age. FYI I have friends and colleagues
that are in the Pride umbrella and I fully support them as persons and their sexual and gender preferences. You have your opinions as i have mine, but your personal insult is way of of line!
Remember going to see them in the late 70's when they toured Australia 🙏❤️🇦🇺❤️
Wonderful group!
The stylle wow cybyls voicce amazing and bruce did well used 2 love this back n d day
Better days. Better times. And much much better music. Aaah, the 70s. 💓💖💝👌
While there was some excellent music in the 80s & 90s & my formative yrs were the 80s, 60s & 70s music in particular, is far superior with a much larger variety of excellent music to boot.
Such a simple song, lyrically, but oh so bloody effective!
I'd forgotten I'd bought this...
Bloody Hell , I became a Punk in 77 !!
Beautiful song. Amazing performance. Thank you
great song brings me back to my lost youth
I remember hearing this as an 11 year old on a Sunday morning on an old valve radio gram. The tone was amazing. Takes me back to
This song spent eleven weeks in the UK Top 20 from February to April 1977: 18, 12, 6, 3, 1, 1, 1, 3, 5, 11, 17.
Der weiche Fall dieser Kleider, unterstützt durch das Wiegen, ist einfach wunderschön.
How wonderfull it was to be in love with a pretty italien lady we both loved this song at 76 it's so good to hear this song and still get the same lovely feeling in one's stomach a love I will never forget
Waow j'avais oublié cette superbe chanson de mes 22 ans 😢😢❤
Présenté par Petula Clark ❤❤❤ que de souvenirs devant ces émissions de variétés !
So nice, the saxophone tune composition
I can't hear this without hearing "Are You Being Served?"
I was studying at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, when this came out….. ah the memories
Timeless.
I was 14 at this time and Alan Paul was my crush! For the shocking surprise of my entire family!
Don't be fooled folks. This not 'back in the old days, when music was music.' This was 1978, Rock was just beginning to fizzle out, so New Wave groups were prepping up for MTV. Disco was a big thing. The style of this song is from the 40s, so it does have a more whimsical. elegant feel to it.
Manhatten Transfer was turning into the best vocal jazz band on the planet, and I loved them! Swing on.
Wonderful voices!
Loved them so! Whatever i was doing, my room became a nightclub
I saw them live in London in around 1976, a great experience straight from my small village!
@TheFlown remember three years after this in 1981 they had that big hit The Boy from New York City?????!!!!
loved them & bought their albums
Triggering all the good vibes from back in the day.❤
SIMPLY WONDERFUL
Always loved this song
Lovely song, but, I keep thinking of Eric and Ernie's version! Loved that too! 😊
Lucky you. I keep thinking of Cannon and Ball's version 😢
Built in nostalgia
How great would it be to play Mama Cass, Marilyn McCoo and Karen Carpenter on a non stop loop. The three best lady singers ever.
Divine
this ensemble was very popular in europe
France end of '76 with this track
Brings back wonderful, wonderful memories...
they where a fantastic group and loved many of their songs
My grandad favourite happy days back in the 70s
They are soooo good⭐⭐⭐⭐✨🎶✨🎵✨🎼✨
Forever magic song !!! The time pass the masterpiece remsins !!!